Prince Charles visits school farm
Monday, 28 April 2008
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FCFCG and Year of Food and Farming patron Prince Charles has
visited a city school in Coventry to see how it uses its farm to bring alive
learning about growing food, healthy eating and caring for the environment. The visit to Cardinal Wiseman School highlighted the wide
variety of ways young people experience learning outside of the classroom,
especially those pupils who learn best by practical application of concepts and
theory.
Community gardens, city farms, school gardens and allotments associations
could get their hands on free plants and materials from the Chelsea Flower Show
this year, thanks to a scheme set up by Good Gifts, the ethical gifts catalogue. The company has recently negotiated with RHS to run a
recycling depot for gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show, which runs from Monday
26th May to Monday 2nd June and expects items like plants, turf, bricks, stone,
paving, breeze blocks, plant pots and timber to be available.
FCFCG members could benefit from a grants scheme
focusing on benefits to mental health and the environment. The charity Mind has
been awarded funds from the Big Lottery Fund’s Changing Spaces programme to
launch Ecominds, a £7.5million five-year grant scheme. Applications are
expected to open in mid-2008. Ecominds will promote the integration of
mental health service users into the community via the delivery of
environmental projects conducive to good mental and physical health.
FCFCG member Mudchute Park and Farm in East London played host to Defra State
Secretary Hilary Benn recently, as part of the Year of Food and Farming. Six of Mudchute’s Young Farmers had lunch in the award
winning restaurant, Mudchute Kitchen with the Minister and then accompanied him
on a farm tour. The visit concluded with a question and answer session with the
Young Farmers.
A dozen ambitious young people with an interest in food,
farming and the countryside are wanted to join the 2008 Young City Farmers Programme - a 3-week residential introduction to farming, food and rural occupations at the
Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester. The
Royal Agricultural College, in association with ‘The Black Farmer’, is running
the scheme which start on July 14,
2008.
Community Gardeners across Scotland are set to benefit from
a spring lottery windfall after the Big Lottery Fund announced a grant of nearly
half a million pounds to the Growing Communities in Scotland partnership. Included in the partnership is the Federation of City Farms
and Community Gardens (FCFCG), the Scottish Therapeutic Gardening Network
(Trellis) and the Allotments Regeneration Initiative (ARI). The lottery funding will help the partners continue their
work with the blossoming Scottish community garden and allotment network. At least
350 community, therapeutic and allotment gardens across Scotland will benefit
from improved and comprehensive support services.
Communities which work together to grow, eat and distribute their
own food feel happier, healthier and take more positive steps to improve the
environment – both local and global. That’s the simple but powerful conclusion contained in a new
manifesto, which calls for greater effort from policy makers, funders and
support organisations to help those local community groups who create tangible
benefits for their neighbourhoods. Called ‘From the ground up’, the manifesto is the
culmination of the three-year SPAN partnership programme (Sustainable
Production in Active Neighbourhoods) and aims to inspire wider recognition of
the positive impact of community food growing.
Local Food, a new and exciting grants
programme funded by the Big Lottery Fund, has officially opened for
applications. The £50 million programme - aimed at making locally grown food
accessible and affordable to local communities - has been developed by a
consortium of organisations, including FCFCG. Local Food is the
first Award Partner scheme funded by the Big Lottery Fund's
Changing Spaces programme to open its doors for applications, and will look to
distribute grants to a variety of food-related community projects across
England.
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